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Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize. This lesson package consists of four parts: a slide show with a speaker’s manuscript for the teacher, a student worksheet, two short videos and this teacher’s guide. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes.  (PDF 63K)  …

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Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize. This lesson package consists of four parts: a slide show with a speaker’s manuscript for the teacher, a student worksheet, two short videos and this teacher’s guide. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes.  (PDF file 63K)…

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Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize. This lesson package consists of four parts: a slide show with a speaker’s manuscript for the teacher, a student worksheet, two short videos and this teacher’s guide. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes.  (PDF 63K)  …

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Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize. This lesson package consists of four parts: a slide show with a speaker’s manuscript for the teacher, a student worksheet, two short videos and this teacher’s guide. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes.  (PDF file 63K)…

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All Nobel Prizes 2017 One overview lesson covering all categories: Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” 3 minutes of video to explain the prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWKWMekR498&feature=youtu.be Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson…

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PHP Below is a simple example of php code that uses curl to retrieve data from the API in order to list the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine between 1990 and 1994. For simplicity, it’s kept short and has no error handling. The php code: <?php# Base URL for the API $url  = ‘http://api.nobelprize.org/v1/prize.json’; # List Nobel Prizes in Medicine from 1990 to 1994 $url .= ‘?category=medicine&year=1990&yearto=1994’; # Retreieve the result from the API using CURL $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $string = curl_exec($ch);…

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This Agreement governs the way that you are permitted to access api.nobelprize.org and data.nobelprize.org (hereby referred to as the Services below). By accessing these Services you agree to accept and abide by the terms set out in this agreement in respect of your access to and use of the data (hereby referred to as the…

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Frequently asked technical questions Nobelprize.org What is the best way to view Nobelprize.org? Nobelprize.org is a responsive website and will adopt to the width of your device depending if you are using a computer, tablet och mobile phone. The site has been developed according to the W3C web standards (HTML5) and it has been tested…

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Easy-to-read version of Alfred Nobel’s life Born in Stockholm On October 21, 1833 a baby boy was born to a family in Stockholm, Sweden who was to become a famous scientist, , businessman and founder of the Nobel Prizes. His father was Immanuel Nobel and his mother was Andriette Ahlsell Nobel. They named their son…

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